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How the Kim Kardashians of Yesteryear Helped Women Get the Vote

Now all but forgotten, a group of New York socialites was instrumental to the success of the suffrage movement.
by Johanna Neuman, Helaine Olen via The Atlantic on December 12, 2017

Peggy Noonan’s Willful Blindness

Her latest column suggests that harassment is a product of the sexual revolution. She can’t possibly believe that.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on December 1, 2017

I’m a Depression Historian. The GOP Tax Bill is Straight Out of 1929.

Republicans are again sprinting toward an economic cliff.
by Robert S. McElvaine via Washington Post on November 30, 2017

Trump Sounds Ignorant of History. But Racist Ideas Often Masquerade as Ignorance.

The White House's fumbling about slavery and the Civil War fits a long pattern in American politics.
by Ibram X. Kendi via Washington Post on November 13, 2017

I Grew Up as a Black Southerner Idolizing Robert E. Lee

I didn't know the Confederate general owned slaves. I didn't even know he was part of the Confederacy.
by Issac J. Bailey via Vice on November 2, 2017

Confronting the Legacy of the Civil War: The Forgotten Front

One thing united the warring factions of the civil war: the doctrine of white supremacy and violence against Indians.
by George Black via The Nation on October 26, 2017
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The Tireless Abolitionist Nobody Ever Heard of

He was a well-known figure in early America, but the name of Warner Mifflin has all but faded from the nation's memory.
by Gary B. Nash via HNN on October 24, 2017

Our Silent Civil War: Debate Over Statues Didn't Come out of Thin Air

In history, suppressed memories, stories half-told or lied about, carry greater power for having been suppressed.
by Ed Ayers via Salon on October 21, 2017
Mississippian funerary heads in the collection of Monticello.

“Kicked About”: Native Culture at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello

Kristine K. Ronan describes her discovery of two Native American statues at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.
by Kristine K. Ronan via Panorama on October 14, 2017

Uncovering Hidden History on the Road to Clanton

Documentary filmmaker Lance Warren interrogates the silence around lynching in the American South.
by Lance Warren via Longreads on October 13, 2017
Reagan signing the bill establishing Martin Luther King Day.

The Sanitizing of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks

On the uses and abuses of civil rights heroes.
by Jeanne Theoharis, Jeremy Scahill via The Intercept on October 8, 2017

Civil-Rights Protests Have Never Been Popular

Activists can’t persuade their contemporaries—they’re aiming at the next generation.
by Ta-Nehisi Coates via The Atlantic on October 3, 2017
U.S. and Confederate flags adorn a pickup truck.

The Descent of Democracy

While the U.S. has expanded its borders of inclusion over time, the borders of whiteness have never fallen. Only a robust black public sphere can change that.
by Khalil Gibran Muhammad via Boston Review on September 20, 2017

Defenders Of Confederate Monuments Keep Trying To Erase History

Claims that the Confederacy didn't fight to uphold slavery are disputed by Confederate generals themselves.
by Adam H. Domby via HuffPost on September 15, 2017

A Requiem for Florida, the Paradise That Should Never Have Been

As Hurricane Irma prepares to strike, it’s worth remembering that Mother Nature never intended us to live here.
by Michael Grunwald via Politico Magazine on September 8, 2017

Making Sense of the Violence in Charlottesville

Was the white-nationalist march better understood as a departure from America’s traditional values, or viewed in the context of its history?
by Elizabeth Klein, James Forman Jr. via The Atlantic on September 3, 2017

The "Quaker Comet" Was the Greatest Abolitionist You've Never Heard Of

Overlooked by historians, Benjamin Lay was one of the nation's first radicals to argue for an end to slavery.
by Marcus Rediker via Smithsonian on September 1, 2017

American Sphinx

Civil War monuments erased an emancipated Black population, but the Sphinx looked to an integrated Africa and America.
by Colin Dickey via Longreads on August 31, 2017

The Confederate General Who Was Erased

There's a reason you won't find many monuments in the South to one of Robert E. Lee's most able deputies.
by Jane Dailey via HuffPost on August 21, 2017
Robert E. Lee monument.

Falling Out of Love with the Civil War

America's unconditional love of the Civil War has blinded us to its true meaning.
by Sarah Handley-Cousins via Nursing Clio on August 21, 2017

Tear Down the Confederates’ Symbols

The battle against the remnants of Confederate sentiment is a battle against both white supremacy and class rule.
by Tyler Zimmer via Jacobin on August 16, 2017
Robert E. Lee Statue in Charlottesville.
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Why We Need Confederate Monuments

They force us to remember the worst parts of our history.
by Caroline E. Janney via Made By History on July 27, 2017
Allegorical lithograph entitled "Reconstruction," by J. L. Giles in 1867.
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Why the Second American Revolution Deserves as Much Attention as the First

The first revolution articulated American ideals. The second enacted them.
by Gregory P. Downs via Made By History on July 19, 2017

The Incredible Lost History of How “Civil Rights Plus Full Employment Equals Freedom”

Why the policies of the Federal Reserve were a central focus for the civil rights movement.
by Jon Schwarz via The Intercept on July 17, 2017

History Writ Aright

What would it take for people "to know their history"? Pay attention to the silences.
by Brendan Wolfe via brendanwolfe.com on July 4, 2017

This Woman’s Name Appears on the Declaration of Independence. Why Don’t we Know Her Story?

Mary K. Goddard printed one of the most famous copies of our founding document.
by Petula Dvorak via Retropolis on July 3, 2017

Historians Uncover Slave Quarters of Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello

Archaeologists have uncovered the slave quarters of Sally Hemings at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello mansion.
by Michael Cottman via NBC News on July 3, 2017
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The Civil Rights Act was a Victory Against Racism. But Racists Also Won.

The bill unleashed a poisonous idea: that America had defeated racism.
by Ibram X. Kendi via Made By History on July 2, 2017

The American Revolution Revisited

A nation divided, even at birth.
via The Economist on June 29, 2017

Bill O’Reilly Is America’s Best-Selling Historian

And other problems we need to solve before we can get out of this mess.
by Andrew J. Bacevich via The Nation on June 22, 2017
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